Regardless of the X Prize, AI will develop substantially over the next 4 years. This is just saying, "those of you working on AI, in addition to whatever commercial rewards you were already competing for, you're now competing for another $5M on top of that." I thought the purpose of these prizes was to spur innovation that would otherwise be unlikely to happen. Now they're just rewarding people for hitting points on Ray Kurzweil's chart that we were already going to hit.

"Getting into tech now is a fool's errand." Considering that the entire future of the human race is based on software and technology, I stopped reading your post at this point. Also, as someone in a leadership role, I can tell you that good managers are a) necessary b) support you in you role. You need to find a new role at a new company.

As long as you don't count this privately funded asteroid mining company... http://www.planetaryresources....

> The cloud is a wonderful idea in principal, but we need a completely different **outlook** on it. Actually, Outlook runs locally on your PC.